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RE: list server discussion


Alex Teller wrote:
 
> I wonder if it were not more productive for everybody to send these
> personal messages directly to the recipients instead of using mailing
> lists and clogging everybody's email?  Let's hear from all of you
> wonderful gardeners in order to establish some sort of consensus,
before
> the list owner steps in.

In response Bob Asmear wrote:

>  I hate to even clutter the list up with a response but.......
>  I don't think there are that many messages of this nature to worry
about.
>  Besides this list is not inudated with alot of traffic.  It is real
easy to
>  hit the delete key when you see that a topic does not interest you.
I think
>  too many people spend too much time worry about these little things
which in
>  turn ends up causing more traffic than the original messages in
question.

NOW I RESPOND:

I am a professional horticulturalist who is responsible for curating
perennial collections at a major botanical garden. I joined this list
server because I hoped to participate in interesting discussions related
to perennial plants.  So far most of the discussion has been on plants
that are not considered "perennials" in the current sense of the word.
Also I agree with Alex.  A large amount of the "talk" is social related
to reporting on how each other's gardens are doing or aimed at one
specific person.  Also, I am not really interested in hearing that
someone left their most recent issue of Martha Stewart Living at work.
I get alot of email during the day and to get so much irrelevant email
from this list server has caused me after on week of "listening" to try
to unsubscribe.   I am a member of another list server where relevant
questions are asked and discussed with little social chatter.  I suggest
that if members want to discuss non-perennial plant topics that they
also join other list servers that are topic specific or more general.
You will lose the subscribers who are truly interested in perennials if
you do not limit the discussion to this area.    

Dennis Eveleigh
Curator of Perennials
Royal Botanical Gardens
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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